Comment by conartist6
2 days ago
My question is so simple: why is a level playing field seen as bad now?
Have we given up on having a market economy? You can't have a fair game when one team playing is also the referee. Yet everywhere I look that's the way of it. Apple runs the app store so that they can also ensures that every successful app is theirs. The supermarket stocks the shelves, but also uses their position of power to kill successful independent brands. Node takes libraries which have taken years of work and shits out builtins with at most a week invested.
I think it's a national embarrassment: anticompetition to the point of communism held up as if it were the genuine spirit of the American Dream.
> Node takes libraries which have taken years of work and shits out builtins with at most a week invested.
> I think it's a national embarrassment: anticompetition to the point of communism held up as if it were the genuine spirit of the American Dream.
You think including a testing library in a language implementation or standard tooling is tantamount to communism?
Yes, I think it's taking several steps on the path away from individual creativity towards society-wide approved ideas.